I'm in my *gasp* ninth (!!) year as a Mommy. WHAT A RIDE. I'm a whole different person, for better or for worse, and this is the story of my journey...

Thursday, November 04, 2010

One of my few strokes of parenting genius.

Ms. Suzi is now officially, 100% potty trained. WOO HOO!!!! She's not had an accident, day or night, for a couple/few weeks now. A little while back, we tried a few weeks of just putting her down for her naps and at night in her undies, but I quickly tired of changing the pee-soaked bed, so we switched back to pull-ups.

Suzi then quickly realized those were fine to pee in, so we were back to square one, when I had an awesome idea: I put her pull-up on over her undies when she goes to sleep! She knows her undies are there, so she doesn't pee, plus, since the pull-ups are being used like shorts, they can be reused. It's a win-win solution! I figure in a couple of weeks I'll get brave and stop using the pull-ups too. It'll be nice to be rid of them for good.

So this morning, I took her to the bathroom when she first got up like usual, but because she was cold and wearing footie pj's, I waited to change her out of her pull-up until we got back from taking the older two down to the bus.

As I started to pull the pull-up and the undies off her, she pulled up the edge of her undies and said, "Oh no, I pee my diaper!"

I said in dismay, "You did?!" After all, it had barely been an hour since I'd taken her to the bathroom!

She looks up at me with a huge grin and says, "No, I jus kid!"

Then she adds, in between giggles and in recognition of her joke, "That good one, mama!"